Color Calibrating Notebook LCDs

[Angus]

So I've been playing around with my 200A5 for a while now and have noticed that compared to my CRT attached to my desktop workstation, the LCD on the 200A5 seems like the color temperature is a bit warm. For those of you who don't know about color temps, warm usually means the colors lean more towards reds and oranges, whites will seem a bit tinted with yellow. Cool means the opposite direction, more towards blue. This is a truly overly simplistic explanation, so I'll just leave it at that my whites (for example, the background of this forum) seems a hint off-white on my LCD and dead white on my CRT.

What I started looking into was calibrating my LCD last night and found only a bunch of things I needed to buy. Like $400 optical eyes and such that I've known about for years. You stick them onto your monitor and it creates an ICM/ICC profile. So I decided to try something...

I had a friend of mine with a widescreen powerbook send me his ICC profile. I understand that the screens in the 200A5 and 185B5 (widescreens) are the same as the powerbook so I figured why not give it a try. Well, to my surprise my friend's ICC OSX profile loaded into Windows and seems to have cooled my color temps just so slightly. I'm a graphic and web designer so I tend to be picky. But maybe you guys can give it a shot and let me know what you think?

I've attached the profile in a zip file. Extract it, go to display properties, advanced, color profiles, and load it on up.

[x5kid]

So to those that have downloaded and tried this did it make any difference?

[Angus]

Heh, I guess that either no one cared or no one had very good results. Or both! Hehe.

[animachina]

Tried it.... applied it, screen faintly blinked, no difference.
Do I need to restart the machine?

[lilteyang]

tried it... nothing happened.... couldn't notice any difference...
by the way, where is the original folder??? I cna't seem to find my way back now....

[Chris Shaeffer]

I tried it and what little difference there may be is hard for me to describe. If understanding the intricacy of color is like understanding the intricacies of sound (which I've had a lot more experience with) then I figured I'd better keep my mouth shut.

That said, the screen seems slightly more natural, more even. Its barely noticeable and could easily be placebo effect. I like it, though, and just left it on.

[Angus]

Originally posted by Chris Shaeffer
I tried it and what little difference there may be is hard for me to describe. If understanding the intricacy of color is like understanding the intricacies of sound (which I've had a lot more experience with) then I figured I'd better keep my mouth shut.

That said, the screen seems slightly more natural, more even. Its barely noticeable and could easily be placebo effect. I like it, though, and just left it on.

Haha, that's hilarious because I'm starting to wonder if it did anything at all or if I'm just experiencing a placebo effect. My eyes are pretty good and I have pretty well tuned color sense from natural artistic ability, but who knows for sure. I think it made my whites a bit more white (with the help of new Clorox BLeach!!) and evened some stuff out here and there. But like you said, it's by only a small amount if at all.